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Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 September 2025
S6W-40249
It is therefore only possible to estimate the number of women exposed. However, DES was not routinely prescribed in the UK.The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) uses the findings of a survey conducted by the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecology (RCOG) which was published in 1974 and this suggested around 7,500 women in the UK were treated with DES during pregnancy in the interval 1940-1971, mostly during the 1950s.
Committee reports
Date published:
24 July 2024
Bile nan Cànan Albannach - Aithisg Ìre 1 - Ro-innleachd Scots
How does the Shetland speaker speak wi the Dumfries speaker? Whit is common there?
’S e aon de na neartan san ro-innleachd Scots gum faod sinn dualchainntean a thoirt còmhla agus faicinn dè tha aca ann an cumantas.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
12 May 2026
Key Issues for Session 7 - Supreme Court ruling on the meaning of sex in the Equality Act 2010
Supreme Court ruling on the meaning of sex in the Equality Act 2010
Nicki Georghiou, Senior Researcher, Equalities and Human Rights
On 16 April 2025, the UK Supreme Court delivered a judgment that clarified how the Equality Act 2010 must be interpreted. In For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers, the Court held that the terms “man”, “woman” and “se...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
10 August 2023
Regulation of Legal Services (Scotland) Bill - Hybrid complaints
The SLCC's procedure was challenged in the Court of Session in 2016 with the court finding that the 2007 Act did not give the SLCC the power to categorise complaints as "hybrid complaints" in this way.iAnderson Strathern LLP v Scottish Legal Complaints Commission 2016 SLT 967 The SLCC cannot, therefore, currently consider service elements of a conduct compl...
SPICe briefings
Date published:
29 June 2022
Hazardous Substances: planning framework - What is the Hazardous Substances framework?
The key restrictions were that the UK Government and devolved governments:
i) were unable to change the definition of what an establishment was (in short, a location where dangerous substances are present in significant quantities);
ii) could not lower standards on what constituted a dangerous substance (i.e. by removing categories of substances or individual substances from the list, or raising the threshold at which the quantity became significant and the establishment fell into scope of the regime);
iii) were required to ensure that the objectives of preventing major accidents and limiting the consequences of such accidents for human health and the environment were taken into account in their land-use policies, through controls on the siting of new establishments and new developments close to establishments;
iv) were required to set up appropriate consultation procedures to ensure that operators provided sufficient information on the risks arising from the establishment and that technical advice on those risks was available when decisions were taken; and;
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SPICe briefings
Date published:
31 July 2020
Children (Scotland) Bill: consideration prior to Stage 3 - Siblings and others (section 10 and a new section 10A)
On 18 June 2020, just before Stage 2 of the Bill, the UK Supreme Court decided the case of ABC (AP) (Appellant) v Principal Reporter and another (Respondents) (Scotland).
SPICe briefings
Date published:
20 November 2019
Resolving parenting disputes: Scotland compared to other countries - The court system
Several court cases heard on appeal (including one before the UK Supreme Court) have also been strongly critical of delays in cases involving children.2NJDB v JEG and other. (2012). Cited as [2012] UKSC 21.
SPICe briefings
Date published:
10 January 2019
Informed Consent in Healthcare Settings - 4.6 How will the right to information be developed beyond the scope of informed consent?
An important decision is the English case of Darnley v Croydon Health Services NHS Trust.i[2018] UKSC 50.
Committee reports
Date published:
30 May 2018
Annual Report 2017-2018
Annual Report Video 2017-18https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmFuDdkPzpo
Membership changes
The following members left the Committee during this reporting period:
Ross Thomson MSP (8 June 2016 to 12 June 2017)
Colin Beattie MSP (8 June 2016 to 16 November 2017)
Clare Haughey MSP (30 March 2017 to 16 November 2017)
Daniel Johnson MSP (8 June 2016 to 9 January...
Committee reports
Date published:
5 February 2018
Report of the Education and Skills Committee on Subordinate Legislation Considered on 24 January 2018 - ANNEXE - Letter from Maree Todd MSP, Minister for Childcare and Early Years, 1 February 2018
As you are aware the draft Orders are a response to the recent case P v Scottish Ministers. We believe that the approach set out in the draft Orders balances safeguarding and the rights of the individual.
